High-contrast Imaging Study on the Candidate Companions Around the Star AH Lep

AH Lep (R.A._(J2000) = 05 34 09.16, decl._(J2000) = −15 17 03.18) is a young, nearby, solar-type star (G2V). Gaia DR2 and BANYAN Sigma provide a 99.9% probability of the star belonging to the Columba moving group (Zuckerman et al. 2011), yielding an estimated age of 42^(+6)_(-4) Myr (Bell et al. 2015). It has a parallax of p = 17.26 mas, corresponding to a distance of d = 57.9 pc (Gaia Collaboration et al. 2018). The star has been reported to have variable photospheric and X-ray emission (e.g., Burleigh et al. 1998; Cutispoto et al. 2003).